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is very early, and the lambs are put to the ram the 

 same year. This Pembrokeshire farm was a good 

 example of straightforward businesslike farming not 

 perhaps so polished as one would find in the typical 

 arable districts of England, but still very much better 

 than most of the management we had hitherto seen in 

 Wales. Land and climate are good : but for its 

 remoteness from the market this part of Pembrokeshire 

 might well become a really famous farming country. 

 Rents averaged about 255. an acre for the better land; 

 and labour, though by no means plentiful, had for 

 a time been a little easier to obtain, because both 

 the Pembrokeshire and Glamorgan colleries had been 

 taking fewer men. Still the industrial schoolboy, as in 

 Carmarthen, was a considerable factor in carrying on 

 the work of the smaller farms. 



East of Haverfordwest in the peninsula is the chief 

 arable district of Pembrokeshire the Rhos ; but we 

 had such bad accounts of the roads that we contented 

 ourselves with the farm we had just seen, and drove 

 north-west to St. David's. All the way we passed 

 through a reasonably farmed undulating arable country, 

 with perhaps one field in seven in barley. Even when, 

 at Newgale Sands, we crossed the little stream which 

 forms the boundary of Little England and passed once 

 more into Wales, we continued in a country mainly 

 arable to St. David's, and then along the road which 

 runs parallel to the coast north-east to Fishguard. 



From Fishguard to Newport and Cardigan the aspect 

 changes ; the hills come closer to the sea, and the 

 farming is like that which prevails in the interior of the 

 county on the lower slopes and the valleys of the Pres- 

 celly range, which rose steeply to long barren moorlands 

 on our right. In this district the farms run small and 

 are wholly in grass. Towards the upper limit of culti- 



